Cheboygan Daily Tribune
BLACK LAKE Seven anglers were lucky enough to land a lake sturgeon during the Black Lake Sturgeon Season over the weekend, with the largest fish being a 63 inch, 61 pound female landed by Chris Wilson. The season opened at 8 a.m. and closed at 10:06 a.m., with a total of seven sturgeon harvested, said Brenda Archambo, president of Sturgeon for Tomorrow. All fish looked healthy.
This year, there were 596 anglers who had registered to take part in the sturgeon season on Black Lake, which was the most ever for this fishing season. The online only registration appears to have worked well, said Archambo. As part of the registration process, anglers were required to provide a cell phone number.
Michigan s Black Lake Sturgeon Season lasts 2 hours
BLACK LAKE Seven anglers were lucky enough to land a lake sturgeon during the Black Lake Sturgeon Season over the weekend, with the largest fish being a 63-inch, 61-pound female landed by Chris Wilson. The season opened at 8 a.m. and closed at 10:06 a.m., with a total of seven sturgeon harvested, said Brenda Archambo, president of Sturgeon for Tomorrow. All fish looked healthy.
This year, there were 596 anglers who had registered to take part in the sturgeon season on Black Lake, which was the most ever for this fishing season. The online only registration appears to have worked well, said Archambo. As part of the registration process, anglers were required to provide a cell phone number.
ONAWAY Few of the February fish tales on Black Lake end with a freezer full of fillets. But a lot of them come this close.
There’s the time Mary Paulson watched a monster lake sturgeon drift across the windshield-sized hole she and her husband, Jim, sawed through the ice, and hollered “Spear it!” a moment too late.
Or the time 15-year-old Gavin Green looked down into the blue-green water beneath his shanty, two hours after the season ended, to see a gray mass fill its frigid window. Green burst out, “Oh my gosh, sturgeon, sturgeon!” and felt a rush that has kept him coming back for more.